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GENERAL DECAY OF SOLUTIONS FOR A VISCOELASTIC EQUATION WITH NONLINEAR DAMPING AND SOURCE TERMS

  • WU Shun-Tang
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  • General Education Center, National Taipei University of Technology, Taipei 106, China

Received date: 2009-07-15

  Revised date: 2010-03-22

  Online published: 2011-07-20

Abstract

The initial boundary value problem for a viscoelastic equation

|ut|ρ uttuutt +∫t 0g(t-su(s)ds+|mut| ut = |u|p u

in a bounded domain is considered, where ρ,m,p > 0 and g is a nonnegative and decaying
function. The general uniform decay of solution energy is discussed under some conditions
on the relaxation function g and the initial data by adopting the method of [14, 15, 19].
This work generalizes and improves earlier results in the literature.

Cite this article

WU Shun-Tang . GENERAL DECAY OF SOLUTIONS FOR A VISCOELASTIC EQUATION WITH NONLINEAR DAMPING AND SOURCE TERMS[J]. Acta mathematica scientia, Series B, 2011 , 31(4) : 1436 -1448 . DOI: 10.1016/S0252-9602(11)60329-9

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